Anon is worried about AAA sales

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• Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It’s easy problem to fix they just have {YOU MUST OWN THE PREMIUM BATTLE PACK FOR $9.99/MONTH* TO VIEW THIS CONTENT}

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  • dukatos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

    • paid annually

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is /v/, which means this post is behind over 9000 layers of sarcasm.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All of which this platform will be oblivious to, because Lemmy just doesn’t do satire.

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lemmy hates the shit out of satire lol

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lemmy is a big guy.

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    • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lemmy is still a relatively young community. I bet it gets better with time. I like to think that I already noticed small (and healthy) community growths.

      And I do not have a metric nor an example. This is super vague, I know.

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  • polotype@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I took it as satire too, but what tells it’s /v/ ?

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The blue colorscheme indicates it’s from one of the non-18+ boards, and /v/ is the one of those that it would fit the most.

      Technically you can set any board to any of a bunch of color schemes, but most users just leave the defaults or pick on dark theme for all of them.

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• Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s the enshitification of triple AAA titles fucking slapping surcharges on EVERYTHING; day one dlc, microtransactions, always online DRM, the ability to revoke access to the shit we pay for, it’s death by 1000 cuts. EVERY anti-consumer action, every attempt to squeeze more of us while delivering the same rehashed shit over and over. Yup I will keep playing my old consoles and the games I own. The intent of us withholding our money and refusing to purchase your shit is to provide publishers with a sense of pride and accomplishment for retaining their customer base.

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• ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m going to school right now for game design. I’m an international student hoping to work here after too. I’ve put all my eggs in this basket, I barely even have enough estimated money for a plane ticket home if I don’t get work right out of school

  Let AAA burn. I want to see it collapse, I want to see all the big game companies shutter. Now is such a great time to see indie studios going wild making pieces of art and I want people working there instead

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    May each of those big ass studios perish and may their market share become a financial whale fall for you and your peers’ wonderful, impossible indie game passion projects.

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I were to come up with my top 10 favorite games list, I believe more then half would be indie.

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I am not sure I have even played ten of the biggest “AAA Titles”.

    Especially not while they were the current hot shit game. I don’t buy anything that isn’t in a bundle or 75% off.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As the western AAA gaming industry dies, I shall be playing Komm süßer Tod in its funeral. Which one depends on who’s the next kicking the bucket: this one is for the pop music industry, and this one if it’s Hollywood.

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    No love for the eisbrecher version?

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hw3Kenowjk

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  collapse of the entire western AAA gaming industry

  Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AAA profits are higher than ever. Layoffs are tremendously inefficient. They do nothing to reduce costs long term, and can actually lead to increased costs. There is a dearth of economic research which demonstrates that.

  Layoffs are corporatist virtue signalling. Nothing more.

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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shareholders only want short term gains so they could sell their shares and win big.

    Long term goals are for the suckers that bought the artificially inflated stocks.

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    • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Layoffs actually tend to artificially deflate stock prices as it’s seen as a signal of a company in financial stress. Of course this can be used to turn a profit through short selling but you’d need to have some sort of prior knowledge to set up the short positions prior to the layoffs being announced.

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Survey from Consumer Reports here. Representative sample of 2022 people.

  “Still playing gaming systems released before 2000” in this case means “has used at least one gaming system released before 2000 at least once in the past year.”

  What you probably imagined is probably very different from what the actual survey reported.

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I play Streets of Rage 2 (1992) but on an emulator running on my Steam Deck (2022), does that count?

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Donald Glover saying “Good.”

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Needs to pass Hammurabi’s code for transactional ownership

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All shall turn to ashes

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So we’ll all be playing POP Stations?

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